Uploaded October 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
This video was produced when the laboratory operated as the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). The laboratory is now the National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR). In the event of natural or manmade disasters, power outages can prompt cascading consequences to our communities. Along with economic and national security impacts, there are social consequences for people living through these outages, and data shows that these consequences are distributed unevenly across the affected population. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is refining techniques for measuring these social consequences, for which there is no national standard. NREL draws on over 15 years of experience supporting communities, utilities, and other partners looking to increase their energy resilience. NREL’s work has resulted in scalable methodologies for resilience planning and valuation informed by stakeholder insights. In this webcast, NREL experts discuss a novel resilience measurement approach termed social burden, how we might forecast social burden in energy system planning, and some current research approaches in this accelerating area of interest. Watch NREL’s energy resilience site for future developments in social burden analysis: nrel.gov/security-resilience/metrics-valuation.html.
The conversation was recorded on August 29, 2023. The moderator is Kate Anderson, and the panelists are Roderick Jackson and Bobby Jeffers.
This video was produced when the laboratory operated as the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). The laboratory is now the National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR). In the event of natural or manmade disasters, power outages can prompt cascading consequences to our communities. Along with economic and national security impacts, there are social consequences for people living through these outages, and data shows that these consequences are distributed unevenly across the affected population. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is refining techniques for measuring these social consequences, for which there is no national standard. NREL draws on over 15 years of experience supporting communities, utilities, and other partners looking to increase their energy resilience. NREL’s work has resulted in scalable methodologies for resilience planning and valuation informed by stakeholder insights. In this webcast, NREL experts discuss a novel resilience measurement approach termed social burden, how we might forecast social burden in energy system planning, and some current research approaches in this accelerating area of interest. Watch NREL’s energy resilience site for future developments in social burden analysis: nrel.gov/security-resilience/metrics-valuation.html.
The conversation was recorded on August 29, 2023. The moderator is Kate Anderson, and the panelists are Roderick Jackson and Bobby Jeffers.
